Ed_Wischmeyer
Well Known Member
So today's flight was from Savannah to Knoxville for Thanksgiving with my sister and her family, making a total of four of us. Limited exposure.
Knoxville is just north of the west end of the Smokey Mountains and I was cruising along at 6500, then 4500 over the lower terrain. Approach asked for maximum speed so I got it up to about 160 knots indicated in the descent. Then they asked if I could turn base, so I did that and they handed me over to tower, still screaming along with plenty of altitude and speed, to put it mildly. Not sure what the hurry was, as there was no traffic to follow on the radio nor on the ADS-B.
Anyhow, I came screaming in on base, gradually reduced power, flaps at flap speed, touched down near the end of the runway (near where the FBO was), gentle touchdown and easily made the turnoff.
Things were well under control the whole time and I straightened out on final at 200 feet or so, plenty of time to judge everything. Little planes can do things the big planes can't...
Knoxville is just north of the west end of the Smokey Mountains and I was cruising along at 6500, then 4500 over the lower terrain. Approach asked for maximum speed so I got it up to about 160 knots indicated in the descent. Then they asked if I could turn base, so I did that and they handed me over to tower, still screaming along with plenty of altitude and speed, to put it mildly. Not sure what the hurry was, as there was no traffic to follow on the radio nor on the ADS-B.
Anyhow, I came screaming in on base, gradually reduced power, flaps at flap speed, touched down near the end of the runway (near where the FBO was), gentle touchdown and easily made the turnoff.
Things were well under control the whole time and I straightened out on final at 200 feet or so, plenty of time to judge everything. Little planes can do things the big planes can't...